Quarantine Sales

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1. I wish there was a way to order now and delay shipment. As I’m very torn on not wanting there to have to be more people out delivering non essential things while also wanting to help support the economy (and lets be honest take advantage of some sales). So if we could order and then say , but ship April 15th, or whatever later date, I’d be all over it.

   1. Amazon has done this. Non-essential items are now shipping April 20th.

2. I’m going to be honest: I have to date remained pretty nonjudgmental about people’s shopping habits in this situation, but “Coronavirus Sales!” is not a headline I expected, or wanted, on this site.

   1. No it’s real bad

   2. Yeah… oof. How about just Sales, thanks.

   3. Yeah, this shows a profound lack of judgment.

   4. Yeah, came here to say the same thing. That headline is awful.

   5. Yeah…I’m neither a fan of the post nor the title.

   6. Yeah. I’m ok with shopping because I think it keeps people employed (no revenue = layoffs) but the headline is very “tons of people are dying but who cares because we get awesome sales!!”

      1. Yeah maybe just pull this post down and start over. Do a round-up this weekend and frame it as “we know shopping isn’t essential right now, but if you need clothes and/or want to support the economy, try XYZ.”

         Or maybe we can threadjack the afternoon post with lists of small businesses that are closed for the time being, but are still operating in some capacity and how we can support them.

   7. OTOH, the seasons have changed where I live, my size has changed, my children’s sizes have changed. They were at a uniform school and now we *all* need a lot of things that aren’t in our closet. One is taller than me, so the women’s stores (and gap family of stores is helpful). I know: beware of ventures requiring new clothes. We don’t have a choice. I change when I get home (I use long sleeves and shirt tails on tees as a handle-covering when opening doors I have to touch) as soon as I take it off and don’t rewear clothes between washes. So my 50% office business non-wash or non-wash-and-wear wardrobe is useless to me now.

      1. The reaction here is because of the post’s original title (a chirpy “Coronavirus Sales!”) which has since been changed (without comment, weirdly)… not the fact that readers are still shopping even when staying home.

         1. ‘Quarantine sales’ is not any better, though.

         2. Yes, this.

   8. Yeah. Ouch.

   9. Spain is using ice rinks to store dead bodies. Everyday I go to work I am scared, days I don’t go to work I am scared. I’m scared for my colleagues and patients, my kids, family. I’m scared because I might be a vector and not know it. I am angry at people who are complacent and blind to the numbers. I’m a doctor, I’m in the US, and I’m seeing COVID patients. There are doctors around me who are hospitalized for it or on quarantine, there are young patients on ecmo. This is a living nightmare, there is no protocol for this.

      The thing that seems to help shut my over anxious brain at night is mindless online browsing, not buying because I won’t be wearing anything other than scrubs to work for the foreseeable future. So thanks for the list, which is in line with the purpose of this site, the normalcy is welcomed, but pass on the title.

3. Yikes.

   1. “It’s probably poor taste to do this on the same day that we’re discussing how we’re spending less because we’re freaked out about the pending recession/depression”

      THAT’S what you think is poor taste? Again, yikes.

      1. I hope that Kat will come in and revise this. It’s not a crime to have poor taste, but it would be the right thing to fix this.

      2. That struck me as well. The dark subtext to these sales is… not the fact that readers of this site may need to budget differently.

         1. Yeah exactly. She features $3000 dresses regularly. The fact that people have differing budgets is not what’s in poor taste here.

   2. Double yikes.

4. Threadjack for litigators: I remarked yesterday that courts were closed and several people responded that they were still doing telephonic hearings, depositions, and even bench trials. This really surprised me because in my jurisdiction I don’t see it happening with civil litigation. Can anyone be more detailed? State or federal? What kind of bench trials are proceeding? Is there anything special about the depositions underway or are you just doing discovery in the normal course? Have jury trial dates been officially kicked? For how long?

   1. I work on cases in several different states. In most of the state courts, jury trials for at least the next month have been cancelled, but so far, we haven’t had other deadlines move. A lot of depositions have been postponed, but there are a handful of depositions still going forward via videoconference. Hearings are being done by telephone. I assume eventually discovery deadlines are going to have to move, but so far not a lot of guidance from courts on anything other than trial dates.

   2. I had an initial conference (by phone) last week in a federal case and the judge set discovery deadlines like normal. She said to do depositions by telephone if necessary, then sent us on our merry way. I also have state cases that are indefinitely on hold, so… YMMV.

   3. I work for a state court judge. So far we’ve postponed most civil calendars but are trying to schedule some motion hearings via Zoom.

5. Even if we take advantage of these, will we be able to mail returns back? Will anyone be there to receive them? I wouldn’t know where to take them – I imagine the UPS and FedEx storefronts are closed? Post office, is anyone inside to take them?

6. I have found people will take any offer on Poshmark so I’ve been stocking up on summer stuff for my kid and some things for me. That’s the limit of my “quarantine sales” shopping.

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